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I can't agree re the SS - they didn't HAVE any middle managers, they all knew perfectly well what they were up to.

I've read that only about 50,000 SS folks were involved by war crimes. So that leaves a lot of folks who didn't get their hands dirty. And the guy in Berlin that had to track soap and toilet paper usage doesn't have the same culpability as a death camp commandant. As for the Godwin’s Law comment - it is comforting to try to think of Nazis as being uniquely evil, but most of them were just ordinary folks.

I'm sure they'd like to think 'only' 50k of them were involved in war crimes . . . unfortunately the evidence is otherwise (my undergraduate major was history with a specialty in military history, and I'm fluent in German, so I really do know what I'm talking about here.) I suppose towards the end of the war there may have been some young members who had no idea what was going on, but the vast majority knew what they were doing.

I can't speak for the state of the immortal souls of anyone. As C.S. Lewis said, whether you're positioned so that your anger sends millions to their deaths or simply causes folks in the office to laugh and make fun of you, the stain on the soul is the same.

Leaving that aside, it is ridiculous to compare a relatively powerless, mostly irrelevant and aging church of only 2 million (if that - that's THEIR number, which I know includes us even though we left 6 years ago) with a totalitarian national government that managed to murder 8-10 million people.